Rosario Lozada

Professor Lozada serves as director of Well-Being in Law and teaches Legal Skills and Values, Professional Identity and Well-Being Practices, Professional Responsibility, and Mindfulness and the Law (forthcoming 2022-2023 academic year). With the Office of Student Services, she co-developed Well-Being at FIU, which received the 2021 Gambrell Professionalism Award administered by the ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism.

Professor Lozada is a faculty fellow with the University’s Office of Faculty Leadership & Success.  She serves on the University’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Education Committee and frequently collaborates with an interdisciplinary faculty workgroup to foster Contemplative Practices in Education at the Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT).  With CAT, Professor Lozada has led and co-facilitated faculty reading groups on social change, racial justice, and mindfulness.

Engaged in well-being and leadership initiatives nationally and locally, Professor Lozada served as 2021 Chair of the AALS Section on Balance and Well-Being in Legal Education and continues to serve on the section’s Executive Committee. She participates in leadership programming for the Association of Legal Writing Directors and offers continuing legal education workshops on well-being and mindfulness.  Her work has been recognized through numerous awards, including the 2022 Florida Bar Law Faculty Professionalism Award, the 2022 Legal Writing Institute Influential Teaching Award, and the 2021 FIU Torch Award.

Professor Lozada graduated magna cum laude graduate from Notre Dame Law School, where she attended as a McCafferty Scholar and received the Distinguished Graduate Student Award for excellence in academics and service.  She clerked for the late Edward B. Davis, former Chief Judge of the Southern District of Florida.  Subsequently, as a Skadden Arps Public Interest Fellow, she represented low-wage immigrant workers in South Florida on issues ranging from wage and hour abuse to civil rights violations.

Professor Lozada trained with UCLA’s Mindfulness Awareness Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.  She is certified as a professional mindfulness teacher by the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.

Born in Miraflores, Perú, Lozada is a native Spanish speaker.

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Latest News:

• Professor Lozada featured in FIU Magazine story “Rx for law and medical students: teaching those under unique pressures how to care for themselves”
• Prof. Rosario Lozada Interviewed by AALS on Promoting Well-Being in Legal Education
• Prof. Rosario Lozada Featured in National Jurist Magazine Cover Story “How to Thrive as a Law Student During a Pandemic”
• Professor Rosario Lozada Schrier co-authors article for Law360
• Assistant Professor of Legal Skills and Values Rosario Schrier co-authors article